060. Ancient Species

before vaccine.

One hundred gods gathered, a higher dimension and a group of gods.

Dnerva stepped into the white and antique temple.

Today’s vaccine exhibition has a different atmosphere than usual. heavier and colder.

This is because it is the place to interrogate those who were defeated by the creatures despite being gods, and those who failed to tarnish the honor of God.

Dnerva took a deep breath and opened the gates of the Great War.

I stepped on the soft carpet on the floor of the Great War. Each god is seated on the long tables on both sides.

100 in total. However, the ends of both ends are empty. One is the seat of Bern, and the other is the seat of Dnerva.

Ninety-eight gazes focused on her at once.

“Here you are.”

“To think that people whose names are gods are defeated by mere creatures. Even Hana was taken prisoner?”

“How incompetent he is to the point of being defeated in his domain.”

“It was a mistake to grant deity to those who did not deserve it in the first place.”

Every word and every look at each other becomes thorns and pierces her lungs. It felt like a prisoner dragged out to a hearing in a place full of enemies.

‘A hearing.’

Even though he is a god in name and color, what he does is not that different from that of created beings.

‘Damn things.’

Objectively, she might be a bit inferior to them, but she was also a god. His arrogance and pride are second to none of the other gods.

However, Dnerva was furious at their words, and instead of refuting them, she cautiously moved forward.

After passing by many gods, we arrived at the center of Daejeon.

“I am back.”

Nodding, he bowed his head.

On the surface, all gods before vaccines are equal. This is because God itself is perfect and supreme, so high and low cannot exist.

However, that is only the surface, and there are highs and lows even before the vaccine.

The nobility, nobility, and greatness recognized by all the gods implicitly.

god of gods. The first three gods chosen by the Akashic Records.

blue albitz.

red kalkar.

Varian in white.

The first three gods were called main gods.

“… that’s so pitiful.”

Kalkar, the main deity sitting on the furthest left, muttered quietly.

At that cold voice, the vaccine exhibition became quiet for an instant.

“Those who claim to be gods are mercilessly defeated and run away in their own realm, not anywhere else. Is there such a thing as self-awareness as a god?”

Dnerva swallowed her breath at the intangible pressure that flowed gently.

Even if they are the same god, the main god is of a different level. Vern was stupid enough to stick out her teeth, but she wasn’t that stupid.

“···sorry.”

just keep your head down

“Let’s listen to the story first.”

Albitz, the main deity of the center and the chairman of the meeting, prevented Kalkar from bruising.

“What exactly happened? How they collided, how they were defeated, and how they escaped.”

“He came to K-Room. Bern executed the elves…”

Dnerva mixes most of the truth with some lies. It wasn’t that he surrendered to Kim Woo-jin and begged for his life, but that he was forced to flee while fighting alongside Bern.

“So you’re saying that you left the other gods as bait and only you escaped?”

“Even after joint efforts, they ran away so ugly? I wonder if God deserves it. No matter how many vacancies there were, they were posted too quickly.”

The murmur of the gods was heard again, but the three chiefs were silent. Their short silence felt like hours to Dnerva.

“…Kim Woo-jin’s level is higher than we thought.”

“Time is not fair. He also had growth.”

“Even so, you run away pathetically! It’s not enough even if you take away your dignity!”

“stop. Dnerva did her best. This is not a place to blame her, but a place to discuss countermeasures against Kim Woo-jin.”

Albitz stopped Kalkar once again.

“The meeting will be temporarily suspended. Let everyone go out for a while. Think about alternative ways to respond to Kim Woo-jin in the future.”

At his declaration, the gods slipped away.

“···I am.”

“So are you, Dnerva. However, I promise. There won’t be a big disadvantage to you for this.”

“thank you.”

Dnerva, which remained until the end, disappeared. There are only three gods left.

“Even if you back down, you back down too much.”

Kalkatsu scratched his head nervously.

“Do you have anything to say? It was already assumed that Bern and Dnerva would be defeated. I don’t like that what I threw as bait came back alive, but I did my best anyway, so there’s no reason to be more rude.”

“That is the same for me. Dignity simply doesn’t come from threatening like that, Kalkar.”

“You are very gentlemen. The honor of the vaccine war for one human being can’t fall to the ground, so it’s going to fall into the abyss.”

“I can only say that it was a predestined result.”

Albitz calmly replied.

Yes, Bern and Dnerva were bait in the first place.

Bait to make Kim Woo-jin break the contract.

Why don’t they know that Kim Woo-jin is strong?

Rather, he knew better than any other god. Because they were the ones who saw how Kim Woo-jin killed God, fought, and proposed peace.

That’s why he thought all the more that he couldn’t leave Kim Woo-jin like this.

That’s why I threw God. He hoped that Kim Woo-jin, who was openly angry at the gods who interfered with him, would lose his temper and break the contract, so he would fall into the abyss.

I’ll pay for dropping Kim Woo-jin into the abyss, because the lives of two gods are extremely cheap.

“I guess I’m not that stupid after all.”

“He killed two gods and accepted our offer even in a state of rage. I can’t lose my temper that easily.”

Kalkar snorted.

“Don’t just talk, do you have any good ideas?”

“It’s not enough.”

Varian answered his question.

“The two gods were defeated and the escaped prisoner was taken back to purgatory. In the end, Kim Woo-jin only got a little annoyed, but nothing was lost.”

So there was no reason for Kim Woo-jin to lose his temper.

“There is insufficient motivation. If that’s the case, this time I’ll have to fill it with enough motivation.”

Conversely, what if the motivation is good enough?

“Stop babbling and tell me what you think.”

“For Kim Woo-jin, it is enough to blow something important. There are two things that are most important to him right now. One is purgatory.”

“Let’s blow up Purgatory? You talk crazier than me.”

“Purgatory is bound by a contract. It’s not hard to break purgatory, but we also break the contract. Get to the point.”

“Then there is only one thing left. The moment when he killed himself.”

“…Albenius?”

“yes.”

The corner of Berrian’s mouth went up.

“Finally found his traces.”

* * *

Somehow, I thought it was a little strange.

It’s been 40 years, but there doesn’t seem to be much difference compared to then, but that’s all for a reason.

“How much?”

“281 to be exact.”

“That sounds like a lot.”

Enforcers of that level are in the top 1% even compared to managers before the vaccine.

In the first place, warriors are not so common, and among them, exceptional enforcers are even less common, and accepting a follower is a god’s own kind of loss.

That’s why the administrators pick and choose among the warriors.

If you put it that way, even 281 people may not be as great as you think. It looks great in that all of them are warriors, but it’s likely that most of them are skipped by the managers.

Of course, quantity is power everywhere.

“You didn’t get caught until you managed to get them together?”

The supervisors’ monitoring and tracking would never have been loose. Even if it’s for dimensions, is that possible?

“I was caught. So I almost died.”

But in the end he lived. Survived.

“But they alone cannot defeat the gods.”

Yes, the world is wide and there are many talented people.

If you spend enough time or a lot of time, you can get enough of a strong person at the level of a warrior or an enforcer. The 281 former warriors that Albenius had recruited are proof of that.

But more than that is unreasonable.

god, or manager.

Transcendentalists who were directly selected by the Akashic Records can only be dealt with with the same transcendentalists.

And there are no transcendents who are not gods.

Except for the exception of Kim Woo-jin.

Unless it was Albenius, the last survivor of the dimension dragon.

Except for the World Trees, which take root and exert power comparable to that of a god in that dimension.

Exceptions are exceptions because they are exceptions. If there are many exceptions, it is not an exception, but a general average.

“That’s why I need you.”

“I haven’t said we’re together yet.”

“really?”

“I don’t have the hobby of throwing myself into a gamble where the odds are slim.”

“Did you forget your comrades who were killed by the gods? What about my people, the Palank, who were friendly with you and eventually gave everything to you?”

“Isn’t it a bit strange to express it like that?”

“It doesn’t matter.”

“First of all, I can’t fight the managers right now.”

“Is it because of the contract?”

“Yes.”

Kim Woo-jin is bound by a contract with Vaccine War. They cannot kill each other unless the contract is terminated.

“Did you say until you release 50 prisoners? There’s still a lot left. But since they sent out 7 people in just 20 years, the gods can be quite impatient. Until you took over as warden, the average was one every hundred years.”

“How?”

“I know more than you know.”

Albenius shrugged.

“Your contract, your life in purgatory, and even the dimension where there are strong enough to deal with the gods.”

“…A strong person who is not a god but can stand up to a god? Are you saying such a thing exists? Not me or you?”

“yes. Precisely, they are ‘existences’. No, I did.”

field?

“The first god slayer is definitely you. But do not think that no one resisted the tyranny of the gods.”

A long time ago, there were those who rose up in anger at the oppression of the gods.

Their bodies were bigger and harder than mountains, and they were so powerful that even the gods could not ignore them.

“And the only species with cosmic power are dimension dragons.”

Those who were chosen by the Akashic Records and did not belong to the Vaccine War, but were born with the power of the universe.

That’s why they were hated by the gods and killed before the dimensional dragons.

“Titan.”

A great race that is not a god but has the power of a god.

“Giants?”

“Don’t compare yourself to the giants. Compared to the giants, who are slightly larger than humans, titans are giants that cover the real world. If the Titans hear you, they’ll jump out of their tombs and split the plane.”

“Are you saying that such a species is still alive?”

“yes. While searching for those who opposed the gods, he accidentally entered a dimension where even the eyes of the gods could not reach. And there I found the sole survivor of the war against the gods.”

Full of vengeance against the gods.

“So, aren’t they the ones who have been defeated by the gods?”

“But the fact that the gods were vigilant and destroyed them has a reason.”

After all, he is the only survivor.

“How the survivor spent each day avoiding the eyes of the gods, and what preparations he made for revenge.”

Aren’t you curious?

At Albenius’ question, Kim Woo-jin could not deny it.

…I wouldn’t be curious.

Albenius has attracted 281 former warriors over the past 40 years.

If so, what kind of preparation would the only survivor who had burned for an incomparably longer time?

Whether it is valid for the gods or not.

“Can I go now?”

“It’s urgent. Well, it doesn’t matter. Actually, because of this, I came back in a hurry and called you.”

Kim Woo-jin grabbed the hand that Albenius held out.

At that moment, the dimension split. The two of them disappeared.

“···uh? What about me?”

Left alone, Yulia muttered blankly.